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crone

   [krohn]
–noun
a withered, witchlike old woman.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MD croonie old ewe < ONF caronie carrion
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crone     (krōn)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   An ugly, withered old woman; a hag.

[Middle English, from Old North French carogne, carrion, cantankerous woman, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, carrion, from Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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crone 
c.1386, from Anglo-Fr. carogne, from O.N.Fr., term of abuse for a cantankerous or withered woman, lit. "carrion," from V.L. *caronia.

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crone

noun
an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag] 

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Crone

Crone\ (kr?n), n. [OD. kronie, karonie, an old sheep, OF. carogne, F. charogne, carrion (also F. carogne illnatured woman.). See Carrion, and Crony.]

1. An old ewe. [Obs.] --Tusser.

2. An old woman; -- usually in contempt.

But still the crone was constant to her note. --Dryden.

3. An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. [R.]

The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him. --W. Irving.

A few old battered crones of office. --Beaconsfield.

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